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Operation Consume, the Republican program, offers to repay the farmer in kind for land which he agrees to take out of production. Under this program, no farmer would receive funds from the Federal government. Instead, for example, a wheat-grower will allow his land to lie fallow, receiving the equivalent amount of grain from the Federal storage bin. He would then sell this wheat at market prices...
...insect pests in the northern provinces, floods along the southern coast. But nature's harshness was compounded by the adoption last year of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "three-thirds" theory of agriculture, under which one-third of China's land was to be left fallow each year, one-third was to be given over to forest and the final third to be intensively cultivated Japanese-style...
...Fallow Minds...
...other hand, [summer courses] work in vacation time many students and teachers who ought not to do anything, whose minds ought to lie fallow and recuperate with their bodies, and for whom in doing this the ordinary vacation is none too long. Much as the summer schools may seem to be accomplishing an important result, we believe they are in keeping with that effort to cheat nature by making more out of life than can reasonably be made, which is one of the great characteristics of modern life in this country...
...rate of population growth is even higher than in Asia). Brazil's vast Amazon basin, amounting to nearly one-twentieth of the land surface of the earth, is still virgin soil. In Ethiopia alone, more than 180 million of the world's most fertile acres lie fallow. Even in crowded Asia, great tracts of potentially arable land, such as the Philippine island of Mindanao and the central highlands of South Viet Nam, remain uncultivated. Meanwhile, the U.S., surfeited with food, has put 22.5 million acres of once productive land into its soil bank...